NYT: Mysterious Midair Dent in Jetliner’s Nose

Don’t blame a bird for the punch that the Northwest Airlines plane took in the nose on Sunday.

Northwest is now examining the dented nose cone of a Boeing 757 jet that was damaged during a flight from Detroit to Tampa. Images snapped by passengers (MSNBC even has some video, above) show the front tip of the plane looking a bit like a beer cup smashed in after a football game.

The NYT article also has some pictures of the actual damage. It’s pretty interesting that they were first convinced it was a bird and now say with near certainty that it wasn’t. While it seems like a high altitude for birds, what else could is possibly be?

I’m curious to see what they find in this investigation, since I would have to guess it’s a case of “if it sounds that obvious it probably is.”

While it’s not new news, I just picked up on this story now, and found it pretty interesting. It’s just an example of an event, which is fortunately uncommon, being turned into a massive war between two organizations. RENO, Nev. – An air…

Pardon me for being somewhat cynical and perhaps rude, but I couldn’t help but laugh after seing this video. This lady, Wendy Slaughter (heh) got kicked off a flight because her kids were being unruly. She even says, “the children were a…

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